Ryan Benedetti

Portland, Oregon

Author, Flash designer and developer, database administrator, web designer

Areas of Expertise:

  • jQuery
  • Flash
  • ActionScript
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
Ryan Benedetti holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Montana and works as a Web Developer/Multimedia Specialist for the University of Portland. He works with Flash, ActionScript, Adobe's Creative Suite, Drupal, Liferay Portal, and Apache's Jakarta Velocity Templating language.

For seven years, Ryan served as Department Head for Information Technology and Computer Engineering at Salish Kootenai College. Prior to that, he worked as editor and information systems specialist for a river, stream, and wetland research program in the School of Forestry at the University of Montana.

Ryan's poems have been published in Cut Bank and Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse. He spends his free hours painting, cartooning, playing blues harmonica, making Flash learning toys, and practicing zazen. He spends his best moments with his daughter, his son, and his sweetheart, Shonna, in Portland, OR. You can view Ryan's daily art blog at http://bendedyeti.tumblr.com

Head First jQuery Head First jQuery
by Ryan Benedetti , Ronan Cranley
September 2011
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

Head First Networking Head First Networking
by Al Anderson , Ryan Benedetti
May 2009
Print: $54.99
Ebook: $43.99

Ryan Benedetti